mercurial/parsers.c

--- a/mercurial/parsers.c	Sat Aug 11 12:45:37 2012 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/parsers.c	Thu Aug 02 19:10:45 2012 +0400
@@ -1084,8 +1084,10 @@
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	if (nodelen > 40)
-		nodelen = 40;
+	if (nodelen > 40) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "key too long");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nodelen; i++)
 		hexdigit(node, i);